Out here in Kansas wheat, corn and milo are all the rage. We’ve turned the plains into mono-crop wastelands and till the soil so its nice a fluffy. Probly not one of the worst places to crash a jumbo jet if you can keep it flattened out.
Freaky how everything drags out and impact is a lot more involved and drawn out than expected. What? No instantaneous fireball?
....and the Russians act like its their 3rd crash landing this week.
and till the soil so its nice a fluffy. Probly not one of the worst places to crash a jumbo jet if you can keep it flattened out.
Not always soft enough.
And they had a LOT LESS to work with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
Haynes later identified three factors relating to the time of day that increased the survival rate:
The accident occurred during daylight hours in good weather;
The accident occurred as a shift change was occurring at both a regional trauma center and a regional burn center in Sioux City, allowing for more medical personnel to treat the injured;
The accident occurred when the Iowa Air National Guard was on duty at Sioux Gateway Airport, allowing for 285 trained personnel to assist with triage and evacuation of the injured.
“Had any of those things not been there,” Haynes said, “I’m sure the fatality rate would have been a lot higher.”[29]
Haynes also credited Crew Resource Management as being one of the factors that saved his own life, and many others.